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Designing infrastructure systems to enhance water-energy-food-environment services

Designing infrastructure systems to enhance water-energy-food-environment services

Mar 22, 2021 | News, Water resources

To mark World Water Day 2021, Professor Julien Harou, FutureDAMS Research Director, discusses early applications of the FutureDAMS approach for assessing and planning development in complex human-natural systems with stakeholders. Development in Africa will require...
‘Storing water: a new integrated approach for resilient development’. IWMI/GWP Launch event

‘Storing water: a new integrated approach for resilient development’. IWMI/GWP Launch event

Feb 22, 2021 | News, Water resources

FutureDAMS Research Director, Julien Harou, is joining the panel for the launch event of ‘Storing Water: A new integrated approach for resilient development‘. The event is co-organised by Global Water Partnership (GWP) and International Water Management...
EGU2021Call for abstracts: Water resources policy and management-systems solutions in an uncertain world

EGU2021Call for abstracts: Water resources policy and management-systems solutions in an uncertain world

Jan 6, 2021 | News, Water resources

In 2021, EGU will be hosting vEGU21: Gather Online (#vEGU21), a fully virtual meeting that will be held in place of the General Assembly in Vienna. FutureDAMS research Director Prof. Julien Harou is co-convening an EGU session on water resource systems under...
Integrating natural and built infrastructure in water resource development: what’s stopping us?

Integrating natural and built infrastructure in water resource development: what’s stopping us?

Nov 26, 2020 | News, Water resources

FutureDAMS welcomed Mark Smith, Director General of International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and Matthew McCartney, IWMI’s Sustainable Water Infrastructure & Ecosystems Research Group Leader, to present a webinar discussing how to support the...
River basins and energy systems – what synergies are possible and how can they be discovered?

River basins and energy systems – what synergies are possible and how can they be discovered?

Nov 5, 2020 | News, power systems, Water resources

Traditionally planners considered the effects of water and energy systems on the other in simplified ways or not at all. This has often led to inefficient use of resources and a somewhat arbitrary allocation of benefits and costs across sectors and geographic regions....
Filling Africa’s largest dam risks political tension if engineering realities are ignored

Filling Africa’s largest dam risks political tension if engineering realities are ignored

Sep 21, 2020 | East Africa and Eastern Nile, Uncategorised, Water resources

A hydro dam currently under construction in Ethiopa is set to be the largest hydropower plant in Africa, but could be heading towards controversy for international agreements on water sharing. New research from FutureDAMS points out that some negotiated strategies for...
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